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I'm trying to assign the below string from the strings.xml file for a TextView android:text property. I'm unable to get the link to show up as a clickable hyperlink. Any suggestions? I've tried the below techniques. 

 <string name="no_device_body">click following link: <![CDATA[<a href="http://cnn.com">link1</a>]]>
 </string>

 <string name="no_device_body">click following link: http://cnn.com">
 </string>
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<string name="no_device_body">click following link: &lt;a href="http://findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=116">link1&lt;/a>"</string>

ref: android string.xml reading html tags problem

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What shows in the textview when you use the second string there? Just the URL but not clickable?

Do you have 

android:autoLink="web"

or

android:autoLink="all"

set on your TextView in the layout xml file?

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He is not asking how to make a link show up in a TextView but how to embed a link in a string resource.
Umm really? "I'm unable to get the link to show up as a clickable hyperlink. Any suggestions?" Seems to me like he is having trouble getting it to be clickable in a TextView. autoLink seems relavent to me, just a guess though, I've never tried URLs in the strings xml personally.
@Tim - this was what was missing.
I was able to use just the url in the resource file with the text view setting, maybe my question was a bit too vague...
@c12 what exactly worked for you? which string name format and which autolink?

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